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ORVAL CLYDE JORDON III
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 12, 1947 – May 12, 1969
Service recordOrval Clyde Jordon III, of Hickory Hills, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 73
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Hickory Hills, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 73
- FRANK EDWARD JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- JAMES SAMUEL JORDANPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- ROBERT LLOYD KLEINSMITHPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- MICHAEL ALFRED MATHISONPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GARY ALLEN CORRIEPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 64
- DAVID EUGENE DEMINGSPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 66
- PHILLIP RAY DOEBERTSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 66
- WILLIAM MICHAEL FIELDSSergeant · Panel 25W, Line 68
- EARNEST TAYLOR FREEMANSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 68
- DONALD WAYNE GARRETTPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 68
- RONALD LEONARD GRAYSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 69
- LAWRENCE DANIEL HARVEYPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 71
- ROBERT DEAN LEWISSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 75
- RICHARD H MCCORMICK JRSergeant · Panel 25W, Line 78
- RAYMOND FRANK NORVELLSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 81
- CECIL WAYNE QUEENSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 82
- ROBERT ALLEN ROOSSIENSergeant · Panel 25W, Line 83
- CHARLES GILBERT STULTZSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 87
- WAYNE DOUGLAS STIGENPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 91
- BOBBY JOE YEWELLSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 92
From Hickory Hills
- ROBERT ELMER MARTINPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.